Rolf Winter (soccer player)

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Rolf Winter (born January 26, 1939 ) is a former German soccer player . As an active member of SC Victoria Hamburg , he was appointed to the German national soccer team three times in 1962 and 1963 .

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Rolf Winter already belonged to the league team of SC Victoria Hamburg in the 1958/59 season, which could only occupy the 12th place in the Hamburg amateur upper house. However, his personal performance led him to the association selection of Hamburg, which was able to prevail with a 4-1 success in the final against Hesse in the competition of the 1959 regional cup . Other players in Victoria's talent were later Bundesliga players such as Gert Dörfel , Jürgen Kurbjuhn and Uwe Witt . In the 1959/60 season, Winter was part of the successful blue and yellow team from the Hoheluft Stadium , which won the championship in the Hamburg Association League . In the promotion round to the football Oberliga Nord they relegated SV Friedrichsort and SV Bremen police to their places, but were tied for first place (8: 4 points each) with VfB Oldenburg. Winter lost the playoff game with the “lemon yellows” in Hanover with 1: 2 goals against Oldenburg and thus remained with his club in the amateur area. He won the second Hamburg amateur championship with Victoria in the 1961/62 season. But again, in the promotion round, the move into the Oberliga Nord was not successful. Winter and colleagues failed at VfB Lübeck and SC Leu Braunschweig. Before that, Winter had played his way into the final with the Hamburg association selection as captain in the semi-finals of the 1961 regional cup against Westphalia. The final decided Winter and his teammates Harry Behre , Horst Schröder, Hans-Jürgen Brauer, Thordes Krakow (goalkeeper), Jürgen Neudorf, Oskar Lewandowski, Rolf Usko, Werner Sonnemann, Waldemar Schmidt and Winfried Warszta with association trainer Martin Wilke on April 29, 1961 with 2-1 goals against Schleswig-Holstein for themselves.

In the last year of the old first-class regional league system, 1962/63, the defending champion from Hamburg came second behind Barmbek-Uhlenhorst. In the promotion round to the new second -rate regional football league from the 1963/64 season, Winter and colleagues with the Victoria took first place in front of Altona 93, VfL Wolfsburg, Leu Braunschweig and Heider SV and were thus part of the debut round of the new second-rate division in the north , the Regionalliga Nord 1963/64.

On September 1, 1963, in a 0-1 away defeat against Holstein Kiel, Winter made his debut on the fourth match day with Victoria Hamburg in the regional league. On matchday 34, May 3, 1964, he ended the season after 19 league appearances with two goals with a 3-2 home win against ASV Bergedorf 85; the Hohelufter took 11th place. With the game on January 30, 1965 under coach Rolf Rohrberg at Altona 93 (0: 5), Rolf Winter ended his career at Victoria Hamburg after a total of 31 regional league games with two goals. He moved to the United States and emigrated to North America . There he played at the side of Horst Rick for the Hota Bavarians .

Amateur national team

In the second half of the 1961/62 season, the amateur footballer of SC Victoria Hamburg made his debut in the German national football team of amateurs . At the international match on April 7, 1962 in Hanover against Italy, he was used by the then responsible DFB coach Helmut Schön as a middle runner in the practiced World Cup system in the 2-1 success of the DFB amateurs. Werner Lungwitz and Horst Kunzmann acted as external runners at his side . Captain Heinz Höher scored a goal. On April 13, 1963 he was used for the second time with the DFB amateurs. The international match lost the German amateur selection in Alassio against Italy with 1: 2 goals. Winter acted in front of goalkeeper Manfred Martinschledde as head of defense on the middle runner position. Before the official qualifying games for the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the DFB and DFV held two elimination games. Winter was a member of the DFB amateur group for the games on September 15, 1963 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (0: 3) and on September 22 in Hanover (2: 1), but was not used. Despite the missed participation in the Olympic qualification, the DFB rewarded the amateurs with a trip to Japan in October 1963. On October 12, 14 and 16, three international games were played in Tokyo against Japan B (2-1 victory), South Vietnam ( 2: 1 victory) and Japan A (1: 1 draw) were held as part of a “pre-Olympic tournament”, from which the German amateurs emerged as the tournament winners. Winter completed his third international match in the amateur national team in the game against Japan B. Together with Walter Birkhold and Horst Kunzmann, he formed the runner-up in the 2-1 success.

literature

  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Hardy Greens: Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 .
  • German Football Association (Hrsg.): Football yearbook 1980. Limpert Verlag. Bad Homburg vdH 1980. ISBN 3-78531-304-7 .

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Single references

  1. ↑ Helmut Kuhn: Fußball in den USA , Bremen 1994, team photo on page 43, cf. also Hamburger Abendblatt of July 1, 1965.
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1939